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Ingratitude is not a pleasant quality in anyone

• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man. Napoleon Bonaparte
• A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. Saadi
• Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! Edward Young
• Brutes leave ingratitude to man. Charles Caleb Colton
• An ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating acorns, but never looking up to see where they come from. Timothy Dexter
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost not bite so nigh, as benefits forgot. William Shakespeare
• Gratitude,  Appreciation,  Rudeness

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Some condemn ingratitude as one of the worst vices

• Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. Decimus Magnus Ausonius
• Gratitude is the least of virtues; ingratitude the worst of vices.
• He that calls a man ungrateful, sums up all the evil of which one can be guilty. Jonathan Swift
• How black and base a vice ingratitude is, may be seen in those vices with which it is always in combination, pride and hard- heartedness, or want of compassion. Robert South
• I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. William Shakespeare
• If there be a crime of deeper dye than all the guilty train of human vices, it is ingratitude. Henry Brooke
• Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good. William Jordan
• Ingratitude is monstrous. William Shakespeare
• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ungrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude. William Shakespeare
• Ingratitude is the abridgment of all baseness; a fault never found unattended with other viciousness. Thomas Fuller
• Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. Immanuel Kant
• Ingratitude is treason to mankind. James Thomson
• Ingratitude; thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou showest thee in a child, than the sea monster. William Shakespeare
• Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. George Washington
• Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood. Sir Philip Sidney
• You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
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Ingratitude, some argue, is a sin …

• Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. George Washington
• The greatest evils in human society are such as no law can come at; as in the case of ingratitude, where the manner of obligation very often leaves the benefactor without means of demanding justice, though that very circumstance should be the more binding to the person who has received the benefit. Richard Steele
• Ingratitude is one of our great sins. Ezra Taft Benson
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… especially ingratitude to God

• In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory. Saint Ignatius
• One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator is the very extensiveness of his bounty. William Paley
• God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children. Someone has said that an ungrateful man is like a hog under a tree eating apples and never looking up to see where they come from. Ezra Taft Benson
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Ingratitude comes at a price

• The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. Henry Ward Beecher
• He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself. John Bunyan
• One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. Publius Syrus

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Ingratitude blocks us from receiving

• When we are grateful for the good we already have, we attract more good into our life. On the other hand, when we are ungrateful, we tend to shut ourselves off from the good we might otherwise experience. Margaret Stortz
• If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get. Frank A. Clark
• If you don’t regularly acknowledge the bounty of your life, you’re simply missing a great opportunity to gently and graciously add immense value to the quality of living. Brad Swift

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Ingratitude is a kind of poverty

• None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves and spend without fear of bankruptcy. Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
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Ingratitude is a kind of slumber

• The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert L. Stevenson

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Ingratitude is a weakness

• Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Taking things for granted is a kind of ingratitude

• Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. Abraham Maslow

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Gratitude unexpressed is a kind of ingratitude

• Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward
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Envy is a kind of ingratitude

• Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. Jean Vanier
• Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self-worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.  Elizabeth O’Connor
• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow’s blessings instead of your own. Harold Coffin
• There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received – envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other’s benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. Joseph Hall
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Greed is a kind of ingratitude

• Greed’s worst point is its ingratitude. Seneca
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Despondency is a kind of ingratitude

• Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God’s worship. Henry Ward Beecher
• Our despondent moods are, for the most part, moods of ingratitude.

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Pride is notoriously ungrateful

• How black and base a vice ingratitude is, may be seen in those vices with which it is always in combination, pride and hard-heartedness, or want of compassion. Robert South
• Much of the seeming ingratitude in life comes from our magnifying of our own acts, our minifying of the acts of others. William Jordan
• The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of wilful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more than another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves. Alexander Pope
• There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received – envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other’s benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. Joseph Hall
• There neither is, or ever was, any person remarkably ungrateful, who was not also insufferably proud; nor any one proud, who was not equally ungrateful. Robert South
• We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Walter Savage Landor
• Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher
• Pride,  Arrogance

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Ingratitude is blind to even kindness

• He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product. Robert South
• The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful. Aesop
• He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. Seneca
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Transcend ingratitude through learning to be content

• Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them. Joseph Addison
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Don’t dwell on the ingratitude of others

• The man who is worthy of being “a leader of men” will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power. William J. H. Boetcker
• We can’t dwell upon another’s ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably. Neal Maxwell
• He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful. Philip Massinger

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Don’t spend time with ungrateful people for ingratitude is catching

• A well-established social psychological law is the law of emotional contagion: an emotion expressed within a group has a ripple effect and becomes shared by the group’s members. People are susceptible to “catching” other people’s emotions. If we hang out with ungrateful people, we will “catch” one set of emotions; if we choose to associate with more grateful individuals, the influence will be in another direction. Find a grateful person and spend more time with him or her. When you yourself express buoyant gratitude, you will find that people will want to “catch” your emotions. Robert Emmons
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• A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. Samuel Johnson
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost not bite so nigh, as benefits forgot. William Shakespeare
• But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. Anne Frank
• Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand for lifting food to it. William Shakespeare
• Flints may be melted – we see it daily – but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame. Robert South
• He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. Edward Young
• How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child! William Shakespeare
• Ingratitude’s a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. Sir Samuel Garth
• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude. Benjamin Franklin
• Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. Henry Ward Beecher
• Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. Seneca
• Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by. George Washington
• Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. Rabindranath Tagore
• Swinish gluttony ne’er looks to heaven amid his gorgeous feast, but with besotted, base ingratitude, crams and blasphemes his feeder. John Milton
• There never was any man so wicked as not to approve of gratitude and to detest ingratitude, as the two things in the whole world, the one to be the most esteemed, and the other the most abominated. Seneca
• Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. Seneca
• We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a condition to render them services. La Rochefoucauld
• We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us. Edmund Burke
• When we would, with utmost detestation, single some monster from the traitor herd, ’tis but to say ingratitude is his crime. James A. Froude

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